Laëtitia Atlani-Duault

Anthropology of Humanitarian Aid

Prof. Laëtitia Atlani-Duault is a Research Professor (Directeur de Recherche) in Social Anthropology at UMR 912 (IRD/INSERM/AMU), and Visiting Professor at Hunter/CUNY, Anthropology Dept., and at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.She is also a member of the CNRS Centre for Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LESC), teaches at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) and Paris 1 Sorbonne, and is co-director of a book series, Le (bien) commun', at the Edition de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris.Her research focus is the critical anthropolgy of humanitarian aid.She is the author of numerousarticles in international journals (The Lancet; Cuture, Medicine and Psychiatry; Ethnologie Francaise; Social Sciences and Medicine; Transcultural Psychiatry; Public Understanding of Science; The Lancet Infectious Diseases; Tiers Monde; Autrepart; etc.) as well as books and journal special issues, such as Au bonheur des autres. Anthropologie de l'aide humanitaire (For Their Own Good. Anthropology of Humanitarian Aid), Societe d'Ethnologie, 2005 and re-published by Armand Colin in 2009; les ONG a l'heure de la 'bonne gouvernance' (NGO in the era of "good governance", Armand Colin/Autrepart, 2005; Humanitarian Aid in Post-Soviet Countries. An Anthropological Perspective, Routledge, 2007; Anthrpologues et ONG, des liaisons fructueuses? (Anthrpologists and NGOs: Promising Relations?) Humanitaire, 2007; Eclats d'empire, un nouveau Sud? L'Asie centrale et la Transcaucasie (Shattered Empires, a New South? Central Aisa and Transcaucasia), Armand Colin/Tiers Monde 2008; Anthropologie de l'aide humanitaire de du developpement (Anthropology of Humanitarian and Development Aid), with L Vidal, Armand Colin 2009; Ethnographies de l'aide (Ethnographies of Aid), Ethnologie francaise/Presses universitaires de France, 2011); La sante globale, nouveau laboratoire de l'aide international? (Global Health; A New Laboratory for International Aid?) with L. Vidal, Armand Colin/Tiers Monde, 2013; and Chercheurs a la barre. Les sciences sociales saisies par la justice (Social Sciences Seized by Justice), Socio/Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 2014.Laetitia Atlani-Duault is the recipeint of the prestigous Excellence in Research Award in Social Anthropology awarded by France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).